CD 2 keeps giving me a wrong MD5

[Tom Diehl]

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, Aldert E. van der Laan wrote:

> Hi Tom,
> 
> 
> Not to offend anyone here but I have been burning CD's for over 5 years
> and am well aware how to do this.

OK

> I am using Nero6 and an LG 8250-B with TDK or SONY media.
> As mentioned CD1 and CD3 are just fine but where ever I download CD2 I
> am getting a fail on the MD5SUM (that I also pull from the same FTP site
> where I download the CD's from).

Did you check the iso's BEFORE you tried to burn them with the command I
suggested??

> Where did you get the images from, maybe I will try it one more time

(icarus pts7) # rsync rsync://carroll.cac.psu.edu/redhat/redhat/linux/beta/severn/en/iso/i386/

drwxr-xr-x        4096 2003/09/24 03:43:34 .
-rw-r--r--         339 2003/10/13 00:44:38 MD5SUM
-rw-r--r--   653885440 2003/10/10 12:35:28 severn-SRPMS-disc1.iso
-rw-r--r--   653819904 2003/10/10 12:38:07 severn-SRPMS-disc2.iso
-rw-r--r--   653819904 2003/10/10 12:40:38 severn-SRPMS-disc3.iso
-rw-r--r--   666861568 2003/10/10 12:23:55 severn-i386-disc1.iso
-rw-r--r--   668729344 2003/10/10 12:28:38 severn-i386-disc2.iso
-rw-r--r--   663519232 2003/10/10 12:32:03 severn-i386-disc3.iso
(icarus pts7) #

> Oh, I did burn CD2 and the  media check also fails (just to make sure
> the MD5SUMS are giving me the right answer), luckily CD's are cheap.
> 
> I'll try your suggestion as well with rsync.

Add -avP a source file name and a destination path to the above command line 
and it will repair your isos for you. If you add a -n that will allow you to do
a dry-run before doing the real thing, which is not a bad idea if you have never
used rsync before. If you use the wrong options/paths it can do a log of damage.
You have been warned!! :-)

Check the iso md5 BEFORE you try to burn it. If the md5sum is good on the iso
then your burning procedure/hardware is hosed. If the iso is bad all the
burning in the world is not going to fix it :-)

On a linux box run "md5sum -c MD5SUM" and either use the MD5SUM file
you got with your iso's or the one I sent you in the previous message. If you
do not have a linux box to do this on there is a windoze program that will do
the same thing. I do not recall the name but google is your friend.

My guess is that the iso's are actually ok but only you can tell for sure.

HTH,

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